djfourmoney wrote:But wasn't A.I an actual human boy or clone with computer brain? More like a Cyborg?

I agree perfect robotic copies of humans won't happen in our life time even with crowd sourcing or venture capital, VC are sitting on a ton of money now, risk adverse...

In A.I., Haley Joel Osment was William Hurt's most advance robot with indistinguishable behavior patterns from humans. He wasn't a cyborg, as in Terminator.

As for the film, I was referring more to the advanced droids, like Jude Law's character, who was kinda a good human simulation, but was it was clear that he was a machine, designed to seduce women. I think that type of advanced computing will be available in a few decades.

S_Parc wrote:
As for energy crisis, in the past decade, a lot of the US Shale has been coming online and thus, fossil fuel shortages have been postponed for another few decades. And if Synfuels (coal->petrol) also gets re-started, perhaps another two centuries. Yes, Japan isn't as lucky here, but they seem to find ways of coping. Perhaps, the US can finally have a trade surplus with Japan, if the Dakotas can produce in excess, via 2020. We'll see.

There's a lot of natural resources out there, it's just a matter of making it cost efficient enough to extract it. As prices go up, it makes it worth the effort to spend more $ to dig. One indicator on when you should invest in gold is when gold prices fall below cost of extraction/production. Generally speaking the retail price of gold has to be around twice the cost of production to be really profitable for everyone involved int he business.

S_Parc wrote:
As for energy crisis, in the past decade, a lot of the US Shale has been coming online and thus, fossil fuel shortages have been postponed for another few decades. And if Synfuels (coal->petrol) also gets re-started, perhaps another two centuries. Yes, Japan isn't as lucky here, but they seem to find ways of coping. Perhaps, the US can finally have a trade surplus with Japan, if the Dakotas can produce in excess, via 2020. We'll see.

There's a lot of natural resources out there, it's just a matter of making it cost efficient enough to extract it. As prices go up, it makes it worth the effort to spend more $ to dig. One indicator on when you should invest in gold is when gold prices fall below cost of extraction/production. Generally speaking the retail price of gold has to be around twice the cost of production to be really profitable for everyone involved int he business.

Here's the thing, if oil prices even stay *stable* (meaning present levels), there's enough incentive to activate any and all, existing sources, thus, an impending oil shock, like a 500+% spike, will most likely not occur for another half century.

Since that averts the sort of apocalyptic economic decline of the developed world, I believe that robots will be a type of convergent technology, not so much based upon advance AI research, ala 22nd century and above, but more on the rise of computing power, coupled with a decrease in costs per CPU. All and all, that's why robots appear to be so lame today, there's just not enough CPU cycles for their workload. This will completely change in only 10 years.

Haha more lively and empathetic than Korean kunts that's for sure, at least it tries to make some eye contact and is interactive.

At the rate things are going everywhere, real women will become more and more plastic and robotic, and these robots will be more human. They will meet and cross paths so to speak.
They just have to be made a tad more cartoonish to avoid the uncanny valley.

*2025 S_Parc orders one

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1)Too much of one thing defeats the purpose.
2)Everybody is full of it. What's your hypocrisy?

droid wrote:
Haha more lively and empathetic than Korean kunts that's for sure, at least it tries to make some eye contact and is interactive.

At the rate things are going everywhere, real women will become more plastic and robotic, and these robots will be more human. They will meet and cross paths so to speak.
They just have to be made a tad more cartoonish to avoid the uncanny valley.

*2025 S_Parc orders one

That reminds me of the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" made in 1969, where the computer on the ship, HAL, acted a lot more human than the two crew members, who were robotic, emotionless and soulless, like modern Americans are today. A lot of sci fi films are used to predict the future accurately, often by insiders who know what will be coming.